The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 560

Chapter 560: 275 Local Tycoon (One Update)_2

What’s the rush? It almost resulted in a death on the street.

Everyone knew that was just an excuse, yet no one dared to expose the truth in public— The said General Tang, who is at the right hand of Empress Dowager Zhuang, got promoted as the Grand Marshal as soon as the latter returned from her recuperation. He was straightforwardly assigned the military power that originally belonged to the Duke of Xuanping.

"Sister, the people from the Tang Residence are too much!" In a tea house along the street, a maiden in a purple dress complained to the nun sitting opposite, "This isn’t the first time they’ve used their power to bully others! Earlier in Liu Lane, I saw a servant from the Tang Residence beating up a commoner, claiming that the latter owed them money. But you can’t beat someone just because they owe you silver!"

The nun remained silent, merely sipping her tea quietly.

The maiden in purple laid on the table, drawing herself closer to whisper, "Sister, do you think... that rumor is true?"

The nun glanced at her, "What rumor?"

The maiden in purple: "That... Grand Marshal Tang is the matriarchal son of the Empress Dowager."

The Nun glared at her coldly: "Wanting to live longer, aren’t you?"

The maiden in purple stuck out her tongue, slightly wary of her sister’s sternness, yet still plucked up her courage and spoke again: "It’s been said that the Empress Dowager almost arranged for the matriarchal daughter of Consort Jing, Princess Ning An, to marry him."

The nun put her sister back into her seat, glanced at the bustling street, and said: "Zi Juan, go and help that old man, then buy all his tea."

"Yes!" The little maid bowed in acknowledgment. Just when she was about to head downstairs, the nun said, "Never mind, someone has already gone."

The little maid and the maiden in purple both looked towards the old man who had slipped and fallen, they saw a lady in a green dress pushing through the crowd and reaching his side to help him up.

"Ah, sister! It’s her!" The maiden in purple recognised Gu Jiao, "The...the...the one who received the flowers from the top scholar!"

Wrong, she got flower endorsements from all the top three scholars!

"Why is she here?"

The maiden in purple was still fixated on the recently emergent scholar and naturally, her thoughts fell on the woman who was favoured by him.

Obviously, she was not good looking, but ever since the endorsement, Capital City had started to follow her style and outfits, she had even put a tiny begonia flower on her face to match.

Nun gazed at Gu Jiao and murmured, "Yes, indeed a twist of fate."

When Xiao Liulang heard her voice, her forehead was just inches from him, her warm breath intertwining with his.

Xiao Liulang’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, his lashes quivered slightly. He knew he should move away, but he remained still.

"Arithmetic." Xiao Liulang said, "I’m cutting circles."

"Cutting circles? Are you calculating the Zhu rate?" Gu Jiao wasn’t sure whether the pi was called Zhu rate in this timeline.

"You know about the Zhu rate?" Xiao Liulang was stunned. He knew she had many secrets but didn’t expect she would also know about the Zhu rate.

Upon confirmation that it was indeed Zhu rate, Gu Jiao understood that this timeline had some overlaps with hers. For example, the Pi, initially calculated by Liao Hui to four decimal places, was called Hui rate. But later, the Ancestor Master refined it to seven decimal places, thus called Zhu rate.

In it, Liao Hui from the Wei and Jin Dynasties used the circle-cutting method, whereas the conjugation technique that Ancestor Master of the Northern and Southern Dynasties used was lost in all timelines. Otherwise, Xiao Liulang would be using the conjugation technique now.

The circle-cutting method is to fill a circle with a regular polygon and approximate the area of the circle through the area of the polygon. This was used to calculate Pi.

Liao Hui started with a hexagon inscribed within a circle and kept bisecting it until he reached a 3072-gon. He finally managed to accurately estimate Pi to fall between the decimals 1.415 and 1.416.